【SPURS 新展】马德琳·普福尔：我行我速

马德琳·普福尔：我行我速

2024年3月2日—4月7日

Gallery II｜SPURS Gallery，北京市朝阳区酒仙桥北路二号院798艺术区D-06

马刺画廊荣幸地宣布将于2024年3月2日推出澳大利亚艺术家马德琳·普福尔在画廊的首次个展“我行我速”，这也是她的作品在中国的首次展出。

马德琳·普福尔的创作多为形态不同的中年女性肖像画，她们独特的气质虽然夸张但充满气势。这些中年女性实际上都由艺术家本人扮演，她会为画中主角打造一套服装与造型，它们通常华丽又复古；被打扮为比普福尔的实际年龄更大的中年女性后，她们开始举止各异地面向画面外的观众进行表演。这些人物形象的灵感来自于普福尔在悉尼郊区的成长环境，融合了她所接触到的家庭成员、邻居等等，甚至包括对她自己成为中年女性的想象。

这次展览突出的是这些女性在日常社交中面临的一种啼笑皆非的状态，在突破自己做出不同于以往的大胆表达后，结局并不令人满意甚至让人感到尴尬。普福尔用两联或三联的绘画描绘了每一个场景中人物的动作变化，她们似乎对现状感到疲倦、惊讶或不满，但都以毫不回避的坚决的态度占据了画面中央。普福尔深入刻画的就是这个为人们熟悉但极少被关注的群体——生活在澳大利亚郊区过着平凡无奇生活的女性们。在她的笔下，这些带着厌倦神色的妇女在色彩浓烈、充满庸俗风格修饰的画面中，就像自己宇宙的统治者。

展览将在马刺画廊Gallery II持续展出至2024年4月7日。

马德琳·普福尔，《牛仔不难》，2023，亚麻布面油画，三联，每件180 × 120 cm | Madeleine Pfull, Cowgirl, 2023, oil on linen, triptych, each 180 × 120 cm

Madeleine Pfull: Shoot Your Shot

March 2–April 7, 2024

Gallery II | SPURS Gallery, D-06, 798 Art Zone, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

SPURS Gallery is pleased to present “Shoot Your Shot,” an exhibition by Australian Madeleine Pfull on March 2, 2024. This will be the artist's first solo show with the gallery, as well as the inaugural presentation of her work in China. 

The majority of Pfull's work consists of portraits of mid-aged women in different situations. These figures present themselves with a blend of exaggeration and awkwardness, but also undeniable power. The model for these portraits is, in fact, the artist herself. Donning flamboyant and old-fashioned attire, she creates a persona for each of these women. Then, embodying these characters who are older than her actual age, she performs an assortment of scenarios which are then depicted onto canvas. Pfull draws inspiration for these figures from her upbringing in the suburbs of Sydney, mixing her friend's family members, neighbors, and her own interpretation of middle age seen in popular culture.

The show concerns itself with the ignominy that occurs in the mundane lives of these women. “Shoot Your Shot” connotes an act of dramatic self-declaration that culminates in an ill-fated, shame-inducing denouement. Using diptychs or triptychs, the artist presents the progression of the characters in each scene. While all the women appear bored, startled, or dissatisfied with their situation, they occupy the canvases' center resolutely. In doing so, Pfull puts a spotlight on this familiar yet overlooked demographic—the everyday women occupying Australian middle-class suburbia. In her depictions, these fed-up women rule their own universe in their vibrantly garish and kitschy worlds. 

The exhibition will be on view in Gallery II until April 7, 2024.

关于艺术家

马德琳·普福尔，1993年出生于澳大利亚悉尼，2015年毕业于悉尼艺术学院，获视觉艺术学士学位，现生活和工作于悉尼。

普福尔有一套独特的创作方法。她会先化妆，让自己看上去比实际年龄更大，戴上假发，并打扮成她想要再现的人物，也就是20世纪80年代的郊区家庭主妇。她会模仿她们的特定表情、动作和姿势，并用表面平整的绘画把它们记录下来。她这样形容这个过程：

“我想我有和作家、演员类似的冲动，喜欢编故事，让自己参与到角色的生活中。我对那些能够为人物提供完整背景故事的行为举止非常着迷。”

普福尔将表演融入绘画，创作出强有力的女性肖像，她们占据家庭空间，透过郊区生活的陈词滥调被看到。普福尔将绘画看作一种鼓励默想的媒介，强调保持静止和耐心沉思对理解的重要意义。这一点在她的“双重肖像”中得到了进一步体现，在这些作品中，她重复描绘同一场景，两幅画面间只有一点微小差别。她笔下的人物身着过时的连衣裙，以绝不屈从的姿态坚定地站在画面中央，实现了一种抵抗，而她本人也以同样不慌不忙的态度要求我们严肃地看待她们。

普福尔的近期个展包括：马刺画廊，北京（2024）；Nino Mier Gallery，洛杉矶（2021和2018）；Salon Nino Mier，科隆（2020）；Chalk Horse Gallery，悉尼（2019）；M2 Gallery，悉尼（2017）。群展包括：Nino Mier Gallery，洛杉矶；Johannes Vogt，纽约。驻留包括：Chalk Horse Studio Residency，悉尼；Salon Nino Mier，科隆；Fores Project，伦敦；以及位于加拿大的Jen Mann和Spark Box Studio。

Madeleine Pfull was born in 1993 in Sydney, Australia, and lives and works in Sydney. She graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts in 2015.

The first act in Pfull's practice is peculiar. She ages herself with makeup, puts on wigs and dresses up as the characters she wants to reproduce, namely 1980s suburban housewives. Mimicking particular expressions, idiosyncrasies and postures, she feeds the documentation into smoothly surfaced paintings. Describing the process she says:

“I think I have similar impulses to writers and actors, of making up stories and involving myself in a character's life. I am fascinated with performance and mannerisms which can provide a whole backstory to the person they portray.”

Integrating performative staging into painting, Pfull forms uncompromising portraits of women who occupy domestic spaces and are seen through the lens of suburban cliches. Positioning painting as a medium that encourages quiet meditation, Pfull urges the importance of stillness and patient contemplation in understanding. This is further heightened by the “dual portraits” where she creates the same scene twice but with only a minor variation. Clad in outdated frocks and firm in their unyielding stances, her characters materialise a type of resistance and in return, with this same unhurried attitude she asks us to consider them.

Pfull has recently shown in a solo capacity at SPURS Gallery, Beijing (2024); Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2021 and 2018); Salon Nino Mier, Cologne (2020); Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney (2019); M2 Gallery, Sydney (2017); and has held group exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles and Johannes Vogt, New York. Her residencies include Chalk Horse Studio Residency, Sydney; Salon Nino Mier, Cologne; Fores Project, London; Jen Mann and Spark Box Studio in Canada.

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